Tornado Rating unknown
3 NNE Lorenzo Crosby County
“[Landspout] Picture of a landspout just northeast of Lorenzo. It lasted 3-4 minutes before dissipating. Location estimated. (LUB)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Lubbock
Hail in Lorenzo · Jul 18, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Lorenzo that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
A tornado was also reported to the National Weather Service during this storm. The ground reports below show where it was filed.
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Peak hail signal 0.5" ≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 0
Ground reports 1 1 tornado
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Jul 18, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 5th most severe storm Lorenzo has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 1.3 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
1.3 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /100
Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Evidence / storm surfaces
How Lorenzo saw the hail — from two instruments
Jul 18, 2026 · Lorenzo, TX
Two instruments, one storm: NEXRAD logs the point signatures it detected overhead, while the estimated-size surface models how large the hail aloft could have grown. Agreement between them is not guaranteed — the gaps are where the model ran ahead of, or behind, the detections.
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field Radar-estimated maximum hail size across the swath, modeled from radar aloft. It reflects the biggest stone the storm could support, which may differ from what actually fell.
Max size
0.5"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 18, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Lorenzo, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Jul 18, 2026 sits in Lorenzo's hail record.
This was Lorenzo's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 25 days after the Jun 23, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 5th of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Lorenzo at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 18, 2026 convective day was bigger than Lorenzo: the same system put hail over 377 other tracked cities, 15 of them in Texas. Nearest: Lubbock (18 miles west, up to 0.5"); Floydada (30 miles northeast, up to 0.5"); Tahoka (43 miles south, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 6 Lorenzo storm dates on a live map — both surfaces, the reports, and a replay — and the same map is where you draw the swath. This page rebuilds nightly.
Ground reports
What people on the ground reported
1 report filed with the NWS
These are storm reports filed with the National Weather Service and released through the NOAA Storm Prediction Center — public-domain observations from spotters, the public, and NWS surveys. We quote each one exactly as filed.
Tornado reports
1 reportBelow the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Lorenzo roofs.
Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Lorenzo hail history
Other storms in Lorenzo.
6 recorded storm days in Lorenzo, TX
Estimated-size surface Storm date Lorenzo / TX
Sep 15, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Lorenzo / TX
Jun 23, 2026
3.25" Estimated 3.25"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Lorenzo / TX
Jun 11, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Lorenzo / TX
May 23, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Lorenzo / TX
May 22, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
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A storm day here is a convective day — it runs from noon to noon
UTC, so late-night hail is grouped with the afternoon storm that
spawned it rather than split across two calendar dates. Ground
reports are public-domain observations from the NOAA Storm
Prediction Center. Radar tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Sep 16, 2026.